US Border Patrol chief Michael Banks is resigning, in latest DHS leadership change

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1. ....employees had accused Banks of regularly paying for sex with prostitutes during trips to Colombia and Thailand......

US border patrol chief resigns abruptly amid string of exits by Trump immigration officials

Mike Banks, who led Trump’s border crackdown, resigned weeks after reports of prostitution allegations


https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/may/14/us-border-patrol-chief-resigns?CMP=us_bsky&utm_medium=Social&utm_source=Bluesky#Echobox=1778778954-1


Joseph Gedeon Thu 14 May 2026 13.41 EDT


Mike Banks, the border patrol chief who oversaw the most aggressive militarization of the US southern border in recent history, has resigned with immediate effect.

“It’s just time,” Banks told Fox News in an interview. “I feel like I got the ship back on course from the least secure, most disastrous, most chaotic border to the most secure border this country has ever seen.”

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The resignation comes weeks after the Washington Examiner reported that six current and former border patrol employees had accused Banks of regularly paying for sex with prostitutes during trips to Colombia and Thailand over more than a decade, and bragging about it to colleagues.

The behavior was said to have been investigated twice by CBP officials, with one inquiry reportedly ending abruptly while the former homeland security secretary Kristi Noem was in office..................................